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Great strides have been made in recent years towards using renewable sources of energy, like electric vehicles, solar panels, wind energy and even algae. It might seem surprising, but algae is one of the most powerful sources of energy we have access to on Earth. When dried algae is ground into a powder and refined, oil can be extracted from it. The result is nearly identical to traditional gasoline, but with far more benefits.
Dave Hazlebeck, CEO of Global Algae Innovations, gave Seeker a tour of his algae farm in Kauai, Hawaii, and explained how his company is revolutionizing sustainable energy. "The fuel that we're producing is exactly the same in terms of performance as gasoline or diesel or jet, it's just a lot cleaner. I think the big difference is that [with] all the other biofuels, you're growing it and you're just getting biofuel. In this case, for every gallon of biofuel you get 10 pounds of food with it," Hazlebeck said.
Hazlebeck believes his company is on the path to completely change the way we currently produce both oil and food. Not only can algae create biofuel, it can also be used to create animal feed. Currently, most animal and fish feed is made from corn or soy, which both use more water and energy to grow than algae.
"There's studies that show with algae grown to replace animal feed, you could actually solve global warming to a large extent," Hazlebeck told Seeker.
Algae can be used to create food for humans as well. New Wave Foods in Northern California created fake shrimp made from algae and other plants that actually looks, smells and even tastes like real shrimp. Because it's made from algae, the shrimp substitute also has the added benefit of being low in fat and extremely rich in nutrients, something that corn and soy are severely lacking.
Growing algae for oil and food could also significantly reduce deforestation. According to Scientific American, the yields from algae are far more significant than crops like corn or soy. If all the fuel in the country was replaced with biofuel from corn, we would need a facility three times the size of the continental U.S. to produce it. But for algae, we would need a facility the size of Maryland. Additionally, algae can produce 40 times more food per acre than traditional crops.
While showing the Seeker team around GAI's Hawaii facility, Hazlebeck explained that the algae farm is next to a power plant, which puts it in a very unique position. "[It] allows us to capture carbon dioxide and avoid that discharge and reuse it, and that prevents it from going into the atmosphere and causing global warming," he said. "If every power plant had an algae farm next to it, it could potentially solve the global warming issue entirely."
The environmental benefits of algae are impressive, and because algae can grow in both freshwater and seawater, it's also very easy to produce. So, does that mean we'll all be filling our cars with algae gas at the pumps very soon?
Not just yet. Hazlebeck and his team have run into a few setbacks since they began scaling up their operations. The most prohibitive issue has been the cost.
When Global Algae Innovations began, a gallon of oil produced from algae was about $30 a gallon -- 10 times higher than it needs to be to work as a viable alternative to fossil fuel. But Hazlebeck and his team didn't give up, and they've continued to come up with solutions to decrease the cost. As of now, they almost have algae oil down to only $2 - $3 a gallon.
Once GAI can get their algae production up to scale, Hazlebeck believes it will change the geopolitics of the world. "A lot of the reasons we have wars are because of fights over resources or the need for more resources. By creating a more equitable distribution with countries being able to make their own, it should lead to a more stable and peaceful world," he told Seeker.
That's really the point of it all for Hazlebeck and GAI. They don't want to be the only company doing this; they want everyone working together because they truly believe using algae as a fuel and food source will change the world.
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There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
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Is hydrogen fuel the future of car fuel? How is it made?
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Hydrogen May Prove Fuel of the Futurehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-may-prove-fuel-of-the-future/
“Humans have harnessed hydrogen for a variety of applications, from blasting rockets into space to making common household products like toothpaste.”
Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas, Sequestration Of Recovered CO2 In Depleted GasWells And Enhanced Natural Gas Recovery
https://www.princeton.edu/pei/energy/publications/texts/Hydrogen_production_natural_gas.pdf
“If fuel cells are introduced for vehicular applications, hydrogen might become an energy carrier for transport applications.”
The Truth About Hydrogen
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381
“Wild promises abound, but can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.”
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“Although abundant on earth as an element, hydrogen is almost always found as part of another compound, such as water (H2O) and must be separated from the compounds that contain it.”
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“For almost two decades, fuel-cell electric vehicles have been another five years away. That is, until now, according to major automakers.”
Will Hydrogen CarsFinallyHitThe Road?
http://www.futurity.org/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-752732/
“A number of factors are converging to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles more attractive to investors and consumers, according to a new report.”
Hydrogen Cars, Coming Down the Pike
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Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
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What Are Algae?
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"Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes. However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence."
Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152439/
"Algae biofuels may provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels; however, this technology must overcome a number of hurdles before it can compete in the fuel market and be broadly deployed."
Biofuels: The Original Car Fuel
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/biofuel-profile/
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Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others.
The argument goes like this:
Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all. No gas; no CO2. In fact, electric cars are often advertised as creating “zero emissions.” But do they really? Let’s take a closer look.
First, there’s the energy needed to produce the car. More than a third of the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car comes from the energy used make the car itself, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is not a green activity. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it’s already been responsible for more than 25,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: just 16,000 pounds.
But that’s not the end of the CO2 emissions. Because while it’s true that electric cars don’t run on gasoline, they do run on electricity, which, in the U.S. is often produced by another fossil fuel -- coal. As green venture capitalist Vinod Khosla likes to point out, "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000-mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.
A comparable MercedesCDIA160 over a similar lifetime will emit just 3 tons more across its production, diesel consumption and ultimate scrapping. The results are similar for a top-line Tesla, the king of electric cars. It emits about 44 tons, which is only 5 tons less than a similar Audi A7 Quattro.
So throughout the full life of an electric car, it will emit just three to five tons less CO2. In Europe, on its EuropeanTrading System, it currently costs $7 to cut one ton of CO2. So the entire climate benefit of an electric car is about $35. Yet the U.S. federal government essentially provides electric car buyers with a subsidy of up to $7,500.
Paying $7,500 for something you could get for $35 is a very poor deal. And that doesn’t include the billions more in federal and state grants, loans and tax write-offs that go directly to battery and electric-car makers
The other main benefit from electric cars is supposed to be lower pollution. But remember Vinod Khosla’s observation "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
Yes, it might be powered by coal, proponents will say, but unlike the regular car, coal plant emissions are far away from the city centers where most people live and where damage from air pollution is greatest. However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal-fired power actually pollutes more -- a lot more.
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Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in which energy cycles through our planet, from the sun to our food chain to electricity and beyond.
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Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do this and what does it mean for the future of plastic?
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Fish Now ThinkPlastic Is Food
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"Tiny bits of plastic are so prevalent in oceans and other bodies of water that fish now see them as food, reports a new study. Ingesting the particles can lead to odd-behaving mutant fish that often die young."
Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1501591.full
"Polyethylene (PE) is the largest-volume synthetic polymer, and its chemical inertness makes its degradation by low-energy processes a challenging problem. We report a tandem catalytic cross alkane metathesis method for highly efficient degradation of polyethylenes under mild conditions."
Global Plastic Production Rises, Recycling Lags
http://www.worldwatch.org/global-plastic-production-rises-recycling-lags-0
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The heat energy released by reactions of fuels is converted into mechanical energy via a heat engine. Other times the heat itself is valued for warmth, cooking, or industrial processes, as well as the illumination that comes with combustion. Fuels are also used in the cells of organisms in a process known as cellular respiration, where organic molecules are oxidized to release usable energy. Hydrocarbons and related oxygen-containing molecules are by far the most common source of fuel used by humans, but other substances, including radioactive metals, are also utilized.

How Algae Could Change The Fossil Fuel Industry

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Great strides have been made in recent years towards using renewable sources of energy, like electric vehicles, solar panels, wind energy and even algae. It might seem surprising, but algae is one of the most powerful sources of energy we have access to on Earth. When dried algae is ground into a powder and refined, oil can be extracted from it. The result is nearly identical to traditional gasoline, but with far more benefits.
Dave Hazlebeck, CEO of Global Algae Innovations, gave Seeker a tour of his algae farm in Kauai, Hawaii, and explained how his company is revolutionizing sustainable energy. "The fuel that we're producing is exactly the same in terms of performance as gasoline or diesel or jet, it's just a lot cleaner. I think the big difference is that [with] all the other biofuels, you're growing it and you're just getting biofuel. In this case, for every gallon of biofuel you get 10 pounds of food with it," Hazlebeck said.
Hazlebeck believes his company is on the path to completely change the way we currently produce both oil and food. Not only can algae create biofuel, it can also be used to create animal feed. Currently, most animal and fish feed is made from corn or soy, which both use more water and energy to grow than algae.
"There's studies that show with algae grown to replace animal feed, you could actually solve global warming to a large extent," Hazlebeck told Seeker.
Algae can be used to create food for humans as well. New Wave Foods in Northern California created fake shrimp made from algae and other plants that actually looks, smells and even tastes like real shrimp. Because it's made from algae, the shrimp substitute also has the added benefit of being low in fat and extremely rich in nutrients, something that corn and soy are severely lacking.
Growing algae for oil and food could also significantly reduce deforestation. According to Scientific American, the yields from algae are far more significant than crops like corn or soy. If all the fuel in the country was replaced with biofuel from corn, we would need a facility three times the size of the continental U.S. to produce it. But for algae, we would need a facility the size of Maryland. Additionally, algae can produce 40 times more food per acre than traditional crops.
While showing the Seeker team around GAI's Hawaii facility, Hazlebeck explained that the algae farm is next to a power plant, which puts it in a very unique position. "[It] allows us to capture carbon dioxide and avoid that discharge and reuse it, and that prevents it from going into the atmosphere and causing global warming," he said. "If every power plant had an algae farm next to it, it could potentially solve the global warming issue entirely."
The environmental benefits of algae are impressive, and because algae can grow in both freshwater and seawater, it's also very easy to produce. So, does that mean we'll all be filling our cars with algae gas at the pumps very soon?
Not just yet. Hazlebeck and his team have run into a few setbacks since they began scaling up their operations. The most prohibitive issue has been the cost.
When Global Algae Innovations began, a gallon of oil produced from algae was about $30 a gallon -- 10 times higher than it needs to be to work as a viable alternative to fossil fuel. But Hazlebeck and his team didn't give up, and they've continued to come up with solutions to decrease the cost. As of now, they almost have algae oil down to only $2 - $3 a gallon.
Once GAI can get their algae production up to scale, Hazlebeck believes it will change the geopolitics of the world. "A lot of the reasons we have wars are because of fights over resources or the need for more resources. By creating a more equitable distribution with countries being able to make their own, it should lead to a more stable and peaceful world," he told Seeker.
That's really the point of it all for Hazlebeck and GAI. They don't want to be the only company doing this; they want everyone working together because they truly believe using algae as a fuel and food source will change the world.
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Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

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There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
http://www.alternativefuelstips.com

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How Hydrogen Fuel Is Made

How Hydrogen Fuel Is Made

How Hydrogen Fuel Is Made

Is hydrogen fuel the future of car fuel? How is it made?
Read More:
Hydrogen May Prove Fuel of the Futurehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-may-prove-fuel-of-the-future/
“Humans have harnessed hydrogen for a variety of applications, from blasting rockets into space to making common household products like toothpaste.”
Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas, Sequestration Of Recovered CO2 In Depleted GasWells And Enhanced Natural Gas Recovery
https://www.princeton.edu/pei/energy/publications/texts/Hydrogen_production_natural_gas.pdf
“If fuel cells are introduced for vehicular applications, hydrogen might become an energy carrier for transport applications.”
The Truth About Hydrogen
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381
“Wild promises abound, but can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.”
Hydrogen Production and Distribution
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_production.html
“Although abundant on earth as an element, hydrogen is almost always found as part of another compound, such as water (H2O) and must be separated from the compounds that contain it.”
How the Hydrogen EconomyWorks
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/hydrogen-economy1.htm
“Currently, the United States and most of the world is locked into what could be called the fossil fuel economy.”
Fuel CellBasics
http://americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells/basics.htm
“Through this website we are seeking historical materials relating to fuel cells.”
Is 2014 the Year of the Fuel Cell Car?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-2014-the-year-of-the-fuel-cell-car/
“For almost two decades, fuel-cell electric vehicles have been another five years away. That is, until now, according to major automakers.”
Will Hydrogen CarsFinallyHitThe Road?
http://www.futurity.org/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-752732/
“A number of factors are converging to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles more attractive to investors and consumers, according to a new report.”
Hydrogen Cars, Coming Down the Pike
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/hydrogen-cars-coming-down-the-pike.html?_r=0
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We Can Power The World With Algae!

We Can Power The World With Algae!

We Can Power The World With Algae!

Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
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"Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes. However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence."
Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152439/
"Algae biofuels may provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels; however, this technology must overcome a number of hurdles before it can compete in the fuel market and be broadly deployed."
Biofuels: The Original Car Fuel
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/biofuel-profile/
"Biofuels have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil."
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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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Are Electric Cars Really Green?

Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others.
The argument goes like this:
Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all. No gas; no CO2. In fact, electric cars are often advertised as creating “zero emissions.” But do they really? Let’s take a closer look.
First, there’s the energy needed to produce the car. More than a third of the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car comes from the energy used make the car itself, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is not a green activity. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it’s already been responsible for more than 25,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: just 16,000 pounds.
But that’s not the end of the CO2 emissions. Because while it’s true that electric cars don’t run on gasoline, they do run on electricity, which, in the U.S. is often produced by another fossil fuel -- coal. As green venture capitalist Vinod Khosla likes to point out, "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000-mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.
A comparable MercedesCDIA160 over a similar lifetime will emit just 3 tons more across its production, diesel consumption and ultimate scrapping. The results are similar for a top-line Tesla, the king of electric cars. It emits about 44 tons, which is only 5 tons less than a similar Audi A7 Quattro.
So throughout the full life of an electric car, it will emit just three to five tons less CO2. In Europe, on its EuropeanTrading System, it currently costs $7 to cut one ton of CO2. So the entire climate benefit of an electric car is about $35. Yet the U.S. federal government essentially provides electric car buyers with a subsidy of up to $7,500.
Paying $7,500 for something you could get for $35 is a very poor deal. And that doesn’t include the billions more in federal and state grants, loans and tax write-offs that go directly to battery and electric-car makers
The other main benefit from electric cars is supposed to be lower pollution. But remember Vinod Khosla’s observation "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
Yes, it might be powered by coal, proponents will say, but unlike the regular car, coal plant emissions are far away from the city centers where most people live and where damage from air pollution is greatest. However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal-fired power actually pollutes more -- a lot more.
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4:44

A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

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Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in which energy cycles through our planet, from the sun to our food chain to electricity and beyond.
Lesson by Joshua M. Sneideman, animation by Marc Christoforidis.

10:04

Methanol as an Alternative Fuel Source

Methanol as an Alternative Fuel Source

Methanol as an Alternative Fuel Source

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5:59

BBC Countryfile at BGI ~ Farming Crops for Fuel BIOFUELS

BBC Countryfile at BGI ~ Farming Crops for Fuel BIOFUELS

BBC Countryfile at BGI ~ Farming Crops for Fuel BIOFUELS

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We are the UK's exclusive distributor of the Austrian manufactured Biokompakt® range of Biomass Boilers - the only true multi-fuel boilers available on the market.
These boilers are different from other biomass boilers in that they can burn a wide range of alternative, high calorific and cost effective biomass fuels which enables you to locally source your own fuels which are cheaper to produce and will insulate you against future price rises.
The Biokompakt® boilers are triple fuel and can burn up to 3 different fuel types, simultaneously, from over 30 pre-tested fuel sources, including agricultural and factory waste.
They are capable of co-firing and are built to last since all our boilers have a ceramic chamber which prevents corrosion.
They can take a wood chip size of up to 60mm which means you can use a local tree surgeon’s chipper and don’t need to invest in a dedicated biomass chipper
They are easy to operate, reliable, and come with a fully automated fuel feed system.
They are Microcomputer controlled, with self-optimizing fuel adjustment for optimum efficiency .
The boiler systems are available from small 15kw to large 130kw and can be cascaded to 1 megawatt
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Why be tied to wood pellets when you can locally source your own biomass fuels?
BGI can supply you with a variety of locally sourced biomass fuels and can advise on which fuel would work best for your specific requirements.
Our delivery / feed systems are designed to make it easier to receive the fuels. A lorry will arrive and blow the fuel directly into your boiler store, or alternatively, it can be supplied in bags. The system is easy and requires no labour from your end. We are constantly researching alternative biomass fuels and will provide you with the very latest research and fuel solutions available.
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4:23

Science Can Now Turn Plastic Bags Into Fuel!

Science Can Now Turn Plastic Bags Into Fuel!

Science Can Now Turn Plastic Bags Into Fuel!

Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do this and what does it mean for the future of plastic?
The ShockingTruth About Biodegradable Plastics - https://youtu.be/Lx0aUk2AiNQ
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Fish Now ThinkPlastic Is Food
http://www.seeker.com/fish-now-think-plastic-is-food-due-to-overwhelming-pollution-1836581300.html
"Tiny bits of plastic are so prevalent in oceans and other bodies of water that fish now see them as food, reports a new study. Ingesting the particles can lead to odd-behaving mutant fish that often die young."
Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1501591.full
"Polyethylene (PE) is the largest-volume synthetic polymer, and its chemical inertness makes its degradation by low-energy processes a challenging problem. We report a tandem catalytic cross alkane metathesis method for highly efficient degradation of polyethylenes under mild conditions."
Global Plastic Production Rises, Recycling Lags
http://www.worldwatch.org/global-plastic-production-rises-recycling-lags-0
"Worldwide plastic production has been growing as the durable, primarily petroleum-based material gradually replaces materials like glass and metal. Today, an average person living in Western Europe or North America consumes 100 kilograms of plastic each year, mostly in the form of packaging."
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How To Make Biomass Briquettes For Survival Fuel

Simple biomass briquettes you can make as a survival fuel source. Read full article: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11530
With a simple caulk gun, some pvc tubing and a bit of hardware you can make a biomass briquette press. I show you how in a previous video. The link to that article can be found on the page above.
With access to a source of paper you can make your own survival heating and cooking fuel with ease. All you need is a bunch of shredded paper. If you have a paper shredder then you can shred paper yourself to use for biomass briquettes. You can also make a paper shredder if needed. Or you can shred paper by hand in an emergency.
For people living in the cities where wood as a fuel source is scarce this is a great survival skill to have. After the recent hurricanes on the East Coast many people were left without power for weeks or even months. People had not light, heat or access to clean drinking water.
Knowing how to make biomass briquettes can save your life and make a grid down situation more bearable.
If you live in the city it may be a good idea to have homemade biomass briquettes on hand already just in case of emergency.
You can use your biomass briquettes in a charcoal grill (outdoors only), in a wood stove or even an empty paint can in an emergency.
In a later article I will show you how to use a mix of paper and natural materials such as leaves to make biomass briquettes.
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40:33

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

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For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for biomass is evident, but its usage must be rational, optimized and adapted to local environments.
A film by GérardGoma (scientific advisor) and Mathias Fyferling

How Algae Could Change The Fossil Fuel Industry

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Great strides have been made in recent years towards using renewable sources of energy, like electric vehicles, solar panels, wind energy and even algae. It might seem surprising, but algae is one of the most powerful sources of energy we have access to on Earth. When dried algae is ground int...

published: 29 Sep 2016

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

http://www.alternativefuelstips.com
There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
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published: 06 Nov 2008

How Hydrogen Fuel Is Made

Is hydrogen fuel the future of car fuel? How is it made?
Read More:
Hydrogen May Prove Fuel of the Futurehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-may-prove-fuel-of-the-future/
“Humans have harnessed hydrogen for a variety of applications, from blasting rockets into space to making common household products like toothpaste.”
Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas, Sequestration Of Recovered CO2 In Depleted GasWells And Enhanced Natural Gas Recovery
https://www.princeton.edu/pei/energy/publications/texts/Hydrogen_production_natural_gas.pdf
“If fuel cells are introduced for vehicular applications, hydrogen might become an energy carrier for transport applications.”
The Truth About Hydrogen
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381
“Wild p...

published: 09 Jan 2015

We Can Power The World With Algae!

Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
How Algae Could ChangeThe FossilFuel Industry - https://youtu.be/yCNkmi7VE0I
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What Are Algae?
http://www.livescience.com/54979-what-are-algae.html
"Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes. However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence."
Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc...

published: 29 Sep 2016

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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published: 19 Oct 2015

How To Make Energy Gels Work For You – Fuel Like A Pro Cyclist

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Energy gels are the best ways to get a quick carbohydrate fix on the road. Here's how to make them work for you.
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Getting enough fuel while you're riding or racing isn't that easy. Firstly, carrying enough food can be difficult, next, consuming it at the right time isn't always easy, and, finally training your gut to take the fuel on board needs a bit of, well, training.
Based on our racing careers and training, energy gels answer a lot of these questions; they're compact, give a quick hit of carbs and, isotonic gels are easy on your gut too.
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published: 30 Mar 2016

Are Electric Cars Really Green?

Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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published: 08 Feb 2016

A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

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Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in which energy cycles through our planet, from the sun to our food chain to electricity and beyond.
Lesson by Joshua M. Sneideman, animation by Marc Christoforidis.

published: 30 Jun 2014

Methanol as an Alternative Fuel Source

short clip from the pump documentary

published: 23 Sep 2017

BBC Countryfile at BGI ~ Farming Crops for Fuel BIOFUELS

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BGI is an innovative energy company that delivers both highly flexible and cost effective solutions for green energy generation in the UK.
We are the UK's exclusive distributor of the Austrian manufactured Biokompakt® range of Biomass Boilers - the only true multi-fuel boilers available on the market.
These boilers are different from other biomass boilers in that they can burn a wide range of alternative, high calorific and cost effective biomass fuels which enables you to locally source your own fuels which are cheaper to produce and will insulate you against future price rises.
The Biokompakt® boilers are triple fuel and can burn up to 3 different fuel types, simultaneously, from over 30 pre-tested fuel sources, including agricultural and factory wa...

published: 16 Dec 2015

Science Can Now Turn Plastic Bags Into Fuel!

Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do this and what does it mean for the future of plastic?
The ShockingTruth About Biodegradable Plastics - https://youtu.be/Lx0aUk2AiNQ
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Fish Now ThinkPlastic Is Food
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"Tiny bits of plastic are so prevalent in oceans and other bodies of water that fish now see them as food, reports a new study. Ingesting the particles can lead to odd-behaving mutant fish that often die young."
Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6...

How To Make Biomass Briquettes For Survival Fuel

Simple biomass briquettes you can make as a survival fuel source. Read full article: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11530
With a simple caulk gun, some pvc tubing and a bit of hardware you can make a biomass briquette press. I show you how in a previous video. The link to that article can be found on the page above.
With access to a source of paper you can make your own survival heating and cooking fuel with ease. All you need is a bunch of shredded paper. If you have a paper shredder then you can shred paper yourself to use for biomass briquettes. You can also make a paper shredder if needed. Or you can shred paper by hand in an emergency.
For people living in the cities where wood as a fuel source is scarce this is a great survival skill to have. After the...

published: 18 Oct 2013

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

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For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for...

How Algae Could Change The Fossil Fuel Industry

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Great strides have been made in recent years towards using renewable sources of energy, like electric vehicles, solar panels, wind energy and even algae. It might seem surprising, but algae is one of the most powerful sources of energy we have access to on Earth. When dried algae is ground into a powder and refined, oil can be extracted from it. The result is nearly identical to traditional gasoline, but with far more benefits.
Dave Hazlebeck, CEO of Global Algae Innovations, gave Seeker a tour of his algae farm in Kauai, Hawaii, and explained how his company is revolutionizing sustainable energy. "The fuel that we're producing is exactly the same in terms of performance as gasoline or diesel or jet, it's just a lot cleaner. I think the big difference is that [with] all the other biofuels, you're growing it and you're just getting biofuel. In this case, for every gallon of biofuel you get 10 pounds of food with it," Hazlebeck said.
Hazlebeck believes his company is on the path to completely change the way we currently produce both oil and food. Not only can algae create biofuel, it can also be used to create animal feed. Currently, most animal and fish feed is made from corn or soy, which both use more water and energy to grow than algae.
"There's studies that show with algae grown to replace animal feed, you could actually solve global warming to a large extent," Hazlebeck told Seeker.
Algae can be used to create food for humans as well. New Wave Foods in Northern California created fake shrimp made from algae and other plants that actually looks, smells and even tastes like real shrimp. Because it's made from algae, the shrimp substitute also has the added benefit of being low in fat and extremely rich in nutrients, something that corn and soy are severely lacking.
Growing algae for oil and food could also significantly reduce deforestation. According to Scientific American, the yields from algae are far more significant than crops like corn or soy. If all the fuel in the country was replaced with biofuel from corn, we would need a facility three times the size of the continental U.S. to produce it. But for algae, we would need a facility the size of Maryland. Additionally, algae can produce 40 times more food per acre than traditional crops.
While showing the Seeker team around GAI's Hawaii facility, Hazlebeck explained that the algae farm is next to a power plant, which puts it in a very unique position. "[It] allows us to capture carbon dioxide and avoid that discharge and reuse it, and that prevents it from going into the atmosphere and causing global warming," he said. "If every power plant had an algae farm next to it, it could potentially solve the global warming issue entirely."
The environmental benefits of algae are impressive, and because algae can grow in both freshwater and seawater, it's also very easy to produce. So, does that mean we'll all be filling our cars with algae gas at the pumps very soon?
Not just yet. Hazlebeck and his team have run into a few setbacks since they began scaling up their operations. The most prohibitive issue has been the cost.
When Global Algae Innovations began, a gallon of oil produced from algae was about $30 a gallon -- 10 times higher than it needs to be to work as a viable alternative to fossil fuel. But Hazlebeck and his team didn't give up, and they've continued to come up with solutions to decrease the cost. As of now, they almost have algae oil down to only $2 - $3 a gallon.
Once GAI can get their algae production up to scale, Hazlebeck believes it will change the geopolitics of the world. "A lot of the reasons we have wars are because of fights over resources or the need for more resources. By creating a more equitable distribution with countries being able to make their own, it should lead to a more stable and peaceful world," he told Seeker.
That's really the point of it all for Hazlebeck and GAI. They don't want to be the only company doing this; they want everyone working together because they truly believe using algae as a fuel and food source will change the world.
Executive Producer: Laura LingProducers: Paige Keipper (Hansen), Conor Spicer
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Great strides have been made in recent years towards using renewable sources of energy, like electric vehicles, solar panels, wind energy and even algae. It might seem surprising, but algae is one of the most powerful sources of energy we have access to on Earth. When dried algae is ground into a powder and refined, oil can be extracted from it. The result is nearly identical to traditional gasoline, but with far more benefits.
Dave Hazlebeck, CEO of Global Algae Innovations, gave Seeker a tour of his algae farm in Kauai, Hawaii, and explained how his company is revolutionizing sustainable energy. "The fuel that we're producing is exactly the same in terms of performance as gasoline or diesel or jet, it's just a lot cleaner. I think the big difference is that [with] all the other biofuels, you're growing it and you're just getting biofuel. In this case, for every gallon of biofuel you get 10 pounds of food with it," Hazlebeck said.
Hazlebeck believes his company is on the path to completely change the way we currently produce both oil and food. Not only can algae create biofuel, it can also be used to create animal feed. Currently, most animal and fish feed is made from corn or soy, which both use more water and energy to grow than algae.
"There's studies that show with algae grown to replace animal feed, you could actually solve global warming to a large extent," Hazlebeck told Seeker.
Algae can be used to create food for humans as well. New Wave Foods in Northern California created fake shrimp made from algae and other plants that actually looks, smells and even tastes like real shrimp. Because it's made from algae, the shrimp substitute also has the added benefit of being low in fat and extremely rich in nutrients, something that corn and soy are severely lacking.
Growing algae for oil and food could also significantly reduce deforestation. According to Scientific American, the yields from algae are far more significant than crops like corn or soy. If all the fuel in the country was replaced with biofuel from corn, we would need a facility three times the size of the continental U.S. to produce it. But for algae, we would need a facility the size of Maryland. Additionally, algae can produce 40 times more food per acre than traditional crops.
While showing the Seeker team around GAI's Hawaii facility, Hazlebeck explained that the algae farm is next to a power plant, which puts it in a very unique position. "[It] allows us to capture carbon dioxide and avoid that discharge and reuse it, and that prevents it from going into the atmosphere and causing global warming," he said. "If every power plant had an algae farm next to it, it could potentially solve the global warming issue entirely."
The environmental benefits of algae are impressive, and because algae can grow in both freshwater and seawater, it's also very easy to produce. So, does that mean we'll all be filling our cars with algae gas at the pumps very soon?
Not just yet. Hazlebeck and his team have run into a few setbacks since they began scaling up their operations. The most prohibitive issue has been the cost.
When Global Algae Innovations began, a gallon of oil produced from algae was about $30 a gallon -- 10 times higher than it needs to be to work as a viable alternative to fossil fuel. But Hazlebeck and his team didn't give up, and they've continued to come up with solutions to decrease the cost. As of now, they almost have algae oil down to only $2 - $3 a gallon.
Once GAI can get their algae production up to scale, Hazlebeck believes it will change the geopolitics of the world. "A lot of the reasons we have wars are because of fights over resources or the need for more resources. By creating a more equitable distribution with countries being able to make their own, it should lead to a more stable and peaceful world," he told Seeker.
That's really the point of it all for Hazlebeck and GAI. They don't want to be the only company doing this; they want everyone working together because they truly believe using algae as a fuel and food source will change the world.
Executive Producer: Laura LingProducers: Paige Keipper (Hansen), Conor Spicer
Cinematographers: Matthew Piniol Spencer Snider
Editor: Lee Mould

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

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There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
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There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
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Is hydrogen fuel the future of car fuel? How is it made?
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“Humans have harnessed hydrogen for a variety of applications, from blasting rockets into space to making common household products like toothpaste.”
Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas, Sequestration Of Recovered CO2 In Depleted GasWells And Enhanced Natural Gas Recovery
https://www.princeton.edu/pei/energy/publications/texts/Hydrogen_production_natural_gas.pdf
“If fuel cells are introduced for vehicular applications, hydrogen might become an energy carrier for transport applications.”
The Truth About Hydrogen
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381
“Wild promises abound, but can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.”
Hydrogen Production and Distribution
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_production.html
“Although abundant on earth as an element, hydrogen is almost always found as part of another compound, such as water (H2O) and must be separated from the compounds that contain it.”
How the Hydrogen EconomyWorks
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/hydrogen-economy1.htm
“Currently, the United States and most of the world is locked into what could be called the fossil fuel economy.”
Fuel CellBasics
http://americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells/basics.htm
“Through this website we are seeking historical materials relating to fuel cells.”
Is 2014 the Year of the Fuel Cell Car?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-2014-the-year-of-the-fuel-cell-car/
“For almost two decades, fuel-cell electric vehicles have been another five years away. That is, until now, according to major automakers.”
Will Hydrogen CarsFinallyHitThe Road?
http://www.futurity.org/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-752732/
“A number of factors are converging to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles more attractive to investors and consumers, according to a new report.”
Hydrogen Cars, Coming Down the Pike
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/hydrogen-cars-coming-down-the-pike.html?_r=0
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Is hydrogen fuel the future of car fuel? How is it made?
Read More:
Hydrogen May Prove Fuel of the Futurehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-may-prove-fuel-of-the-future/
“Humans have harnessed hydrogen for a variety of applications, from blasting rockets into space to making common household products like toothpaste.”
Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas, Sequestration Of Recovered CO2 In Depleted GasWells And Enhanced Natural Gas Recovery
https://www.princeton.edu/pei/energy/publications/texts/Hydrogen_production_natural_gas.pdf
“If fuel cells are introduced for vehicular applications, hydrogen might become an energy carrier for transport applications.”
The Truth About Hydrogen
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381
“Wild promises abound, but can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.”
Hydrogen Production and Distribution
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_production.html
“Although abundant on earth as an element, hydrogen is almost always found as part of another compound, such as water (H2O) and must be separated from the compounds that contain it.”
How the Hydrogen EconomyWorks
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/hydrogen-economy1.htm
“Currently, the United States and most of the world is locked into what could be called the fossil fuel economy.”
Fuel CellBasics
http://americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells/basics.htm
“Through this website we are seeking historical materials relating to fuel cells.”
Is 2014 the Year of the Fuel Cell Car?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-2014-the-year-of-the-fuel-cell-car/
“For almost two decades, fuel-cell electric vehicles have been another five years away. That is, until now, according to major automakers.”
Will Hydrogen CarsFinallyHitThe Road?
http://www.futurity.org/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-752732/
“A number of factors are converging to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles more attractive to investors and consumers, according to a new report.”
Hydrogen Cars, Coming Down the Pike
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/hydrogen-cars-coming-down-the-pike.html?_r=0
“The once-distant promise of clean, affordable hydrogen-powered cars is starting to become a reality.”
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We Can Power The World With Algae!

Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
How Algae Could ChangeThe Fossil...

Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
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What Are Algae?
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"Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes. However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence."
Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152439/
"Algae biofuels may provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels; however, this technology must overcome a number of hurdles before it can compete in the fuel market and be broadly deployed."
Biofuels: The Original Car Fuel
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/biofuel-profile/
"Biofuels have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil."
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Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
How Algae Could ChangeThe FossilFuel Industry - https://youtu.be/yCNkmi7VE0I
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Read More:
What Are Algae?
http://www.livescience.com/54979-what-are-algae.html
"Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes. However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence."
Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152439/
"Algae biofuels may provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels; however, this technology must overcome a number of hurdles before it can compete in the fuel market and be broadly deployed."
Biofuels: The Original Car Fuel
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/biofuel-profile/
"Biofuels have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil."
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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclea...

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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Are Electric Cars Really Green?

Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production? And ...

Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others.
The argument goes like this:
Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all. No gas; no CO2. In fact, electric cars are often advertised as creating “zero emissions.” But do they really? Let’s take a closer look.
First, there’s the energy needed to produce the car. More than a third of the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car comes from the energy used make the car itself, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is not a green activity. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it’s already been responsible for more than 25,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: just 16,000 pounds.
But that’s not the end of the CO2 emissions. Because while it’s true that electric cars don’t run on gasoline, they do run on electricity, which, in the U.S. is often produced by another fossil fuel -- coal. As green venture capitalist Vinod Khosla likes to point out, "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000-mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.
A comparable MercedesCDIA160 over a similar lifetime will emit just 3 tons more across its production, diesel consumption and ultimate scrapping. The results are similar for a top-line Tesla, the king of electric cars. It emits about 44 tons, which is only 5 tons less than a similar Audi A7 Quattro.
So throughout the full life of an electric car, it will emit just three to five tons less CO2. In Europe, on its EuropeanTrading System, it currently costs $7 to cut one ton of CO2. So the entire climate benefit of an electric car is about $35. Yet the U.S. federal government essentially provides electric car buyers with a subsidy of up to $7,500.
Paying $7,500 for something you could get for $35 is a very poor deal. And that doesn’t include the billions more in federal and state grants, loans and tax write-offs that go directly to battery and electric-car makers
The other main benefit from electric cars is supposed to be lower pollution. But remember Vinod Khosla’s observation "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
Yes, it might be powered by coal, proponents will say, but unlike the regular car, coal plant emissions are far away from the city centers where most people live and where damage from air pollution is greatest. However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal-fired power actually pollutes more -- a lot more.
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Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others.
The argument goes like this:
Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all. No gas; no CO2. In fact, electric cars are often advertised as creating “zero emissions.” But do they really? Let’s take a closer look.
First, there’s the energy needed to produce the car. More than a third of the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car comes from the energy used make the car itself, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is not a green activity. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it’s already been responsible for more than 25,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: just 16,000 pounds.
But that’s not the end of the CO2 emissions. Because while it’s true that electric cars don’t run on gasoline, they do run on electricity, which, in the U.S. is often produced by another fossil fuel -- coal. As green venture capitalist Vinod Khosla likes to point out, "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000-mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.
A comparable MercedesCDIA160 over a similar lifetime will emit just 3 tons more across its production, diesel consumption and ultimate scrapping. The results are similar for a top-line Tesla, the king of electric cars. It emits about 44 tons, which is only 5 tons less than a similar Audi A7 Quattro.
So throughout the full life of an electric car, it will emit just three to five tons less CO2. In Europe, on its EuropeanTrading System, it currently costs $7 to cut one ton of CO2. So the entire climate benefit of an electric car is about $35. Yet the U.S. federal government essentially provides electric car buyers with a subsidy of up to $7,500.
Paying $7,500 for something you could get for $35 is a very poor deal. And that doesn’t include the billions more in federal and state grants, loans and tax write-offs that go directly to battery and electric-car makers
The other main benefit from electric cars is supposed to be lower pollution. But remember Vinod Khosla’s observation "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
Yes, it might be powered by coal, proponents will say, but unlike the regular car, coal plant emissions are far away from the city centers where most people live and where damage from air pollution is greatest. However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal-fired power actually pollutes more -- a lot more.
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A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

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Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global ...

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Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in which energy cycles through our planet, from the sun to our food chain to electricity and beyond.
Lesson by Joshua M. Sneideman, animation by Marc Christoforidis.

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Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in which energy cycles through our planet, from the sun to our food chain to electricity and beyond.
Lesson by Joshua M. Sneideman, animation by Marc Christoforidis.

BBC Countryfile at BGI ~ Farming Crops for Fuel BIOFUELS

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BGI is an innovative energy company that delivers both highly flexible and cost effective solutions for green energy generation ...

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BGI is an innovative energy company that delivers both highly flexible and cost effective solutions for green energy generation in the UK.
We are the UK's exclusive distributor of the Austrian manufactured Biokompakt® range of Biomass Boilers - the only true multi-fuel boilers available on the market.
These boilers are different from other biomass boilers in that they can burn a wide range of alternative, high calorific and cost effective biomass fuels which enables you to locally source your own fuels which are cheaper to produce and will insulate you against future price rises.
The Biokompakt® boilers are triple fuel and can burn up to 3 different fuel types, simultaneously, from over 30 pre-tested fuel sources, including agricultural and factory waste.
They are capable of co-firing and are built to last since all our boilers have a ceramic chamber which prevents corrosion.
They can take a wood chip size of up to 60mm which means you can use a local tree surgeon’s chipper and don’t need to invest in a dedicated biomass chipper
They are easy to operate, reliable, and come with a fully automated fuel feed system.
They are Microcomputer controlled, with self-optimizing fuel adjustment for optimum efficiency .
The boiler systems are available from small 15kw to large 130kw and can be cascaded to 1 megawatt
They offer a sensational efficiency rating of up to 94.3%
OUR SERVICE
Buildings are often just as unique and individual as their owners and our mission is to respond to these demands and offer an optimal solution. Which is why BGI offer a bespoke boiler design service. We will undertake a site survey and work directly with you to create the most cost effective system for your specific needs. We have a highly trained accredited installer network covering the whole of the UK who will expertly install your boiler, once the designs are agreed. BGI also offer a full back up and design service, full operation training and maintenance contracts.
BIOMASS FUEL SUPPLY
Why be tied to wood pellets when you can locally source your own biomass fuels?
BGI can supply you with a variety of locally sourced biomass fuels and can advise on which fuel would work best for your specific requirements.
Our delivery / feed systems are designed to make it easier to receive the fuels. A lorry will arrive and blow the fuel directly into your boiler store, or alternatively, it can be supplied in bags. The system is easy and requires no labour from your end. We are constantly researching alternative biomass fuels and will provide you with the very latest research and fuel solutions available.
Visit us at http://b-g-i.co.uk/
BIOMASS,200,2012,http://b-g-i.co.uk/,Biomass Fuels,Biomass boilers,biomass heating,Biomass Heating System,Fuel,

Visit us at http://b-g-i.co.uk/
BGI is an innovative energy company that delivers both highly flexible and cost effective solutions for green energy generation in the UK.
We are the UK's exclusive distributor of the Austrian manufactured Biokompakt® range of Biomass Boilers - the only true multi-fuel boilers available on the market.
These boilers are different from other biomass boilers in that they can burn a wide range of alternative, high calorific and cost effective biomass fuels which enables you to locally source your own fuels which are cheaper to produce and will insulate you against future price rises.
The Biokompakt® boilers are triple fuel and can burn up to 3 different fuel types, simultaneously, from over 30 pre-tested fuel sources, including agricultural and factory waste.
They are capable of co-firing and are built to last since all our boilers have a ceramic chamber which prevents corrosion.
They can take a wood chip size of up to 60mm which means you can use a local tree surgeon’s chipper and don’t need to invest in a dedicated biomass chipper
They are easy to operate, reliable, and come with a fully automated fuel feed system.
They are Microcomputer controlled, with self-optimizing fuel adjustment for optimum efficiency .
The boiler systems are available from small 15kw to large 130kw and can be cascaded to 1 megawatt
They offer a sensational efficiency rating of up to 94.3%
OUR SERVICE
Buildings are often just as unique and individual as their owners and our mission is to respond to these demands and offer an optimal solution. Which is why BGI offer a bespoke boiler design service. We will undertake a site survey and work directly with you to create the most cost effective system for your specific needs. We have a highly trained accredited installer network covering the whole of the UK who will expertly install your boiler, once the designs are agreed. BGI also offer a full back up and design service, full operation training and maintenance contracts.
BIOMASS FUEL SUPPLY
Why be tied to wood pellets when you can locally source your own biomass fuels?
BGI can supply you with a variety of locally sourced biomass fuels and can advise on which fuel would work best for your specific requirements.
Our delivery / feed systems are designed to make it easier to receive the fuels. A lorry will arrive and blow the fuel directly into your boiler store, or alternatively, it can be supplied in bags. The system is easy and requires no labour from your end. We are constantly researching alternative biomass fuels and will provide you with the very latest research and fuel solutions available.
Visit us at http://b-g-i.co.uk/
BIOMASS,200,2012,http://b-g-i.co.uk/,Biomass Fuels,Biomass boilers,biomass heating,Biomass Heating System,Fuel,

Science Can Now Turn Plastic Bags Into Fuel!

Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do this and what does it mean for the future of plastic?
The Shocking Tru...

Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do this and what does it mean for the future of plastic?
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"Tiny bits of plastic are so prevalent in oceans and other bodies of water that fish now see them as food, reports a new study. Ingesting the particles can lead to odd-behaving mutant fish that often die young."
Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1501591.full
"Polyethylene (PE) is the largest-volume synthetic polymer, and its chemical inertness makes its degradation by low-energy processes a challenging problem. We report a tandem catalytic cross alkane metathesis method for highly efficient degradation of polyethylenes under mild conditions."
Global Plastic Production Rises, Recycling Lags
http://www.worldwatch.org/global-plastic-production-rises-recycling-lags-0
"Worldwide plastic production has been growing as the durable, primarily petroleum-based material gradually replaces materials like glass and metal. Today, an average person living in Western Europe or North America consumes 100 kilograms of plastic each year, mostly in the form of packaging."
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Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do this and what does it mean for the future of plastic?
The ShockingTruth About Biodegradable Plastics - https://youtu.be/Lx0aUk2AiNQ
Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI
ReadMore:
Fish Now ThinkPlastic Is Food
http://www.seeker.com/fish-now-think-plastic-is-food-due-to-overwhelming-pollution-1836581300.html
"Tiny bits of plastic are so prevalent in oceans and other bodies of water that fish now see them as food, reports a new study. Ingesting the particles can lead to odd-behaving mutant fish that often die young."
Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1501591.full
"Polyethylene (PE) is the largest-volume synthetic polymer, and its chemical inertness makes its degradation by low-energy processes a challenging problem. We report a tandem catalytic cross alkane metathesis method for highly efficient degradation of polyethylenes under mild conditions."
Global Plastic Production Rises, Recycling Lags
http://www.worldwatch.org/global-plastic-production-rises-recycling-lags-0
"Worldwide plastic production has been growing as the durable, primarily petroleum-based material gradually replaces materials like glass and metal. Today, an average person living in Western Europe or North America consumes 100 kilograms of plastic each year, mostly in the form of packaging."
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How To Make Biomass Briquettes For Survival Fuel

Simple biomass briquettes you can make as a survival fuel source. Read full article: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11530
With a s...

Simple biomass briquettes you can make as a survival fuel source. Read full article: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11530
With a simple caulk gun, some pvc tubing and a bit of hardware you can make a biomass briquette press. I show you how in a previous video. The link to that article can be found on the page above.
With access to a source of paper you can make your own survival heating and cooking fuel with ease. All you need is a bunch of shredded paper. If you have a paper shredder then you can shred paper yourself to use for biomass briquettes. You can also make a paper shredder if needed. Or you can shred paper by hand in an emergency.
For people living in the cities where wood as a fuel source is scarce this is a great survival skill to have. After the recent hurricanes on the East Coast many people were left without power for weeks or even months. People had not light, heat or access to clean drinking water.
Knowing how to make biomass briquettes can save your life and make a grid down situation more bearable.
If you live in the city it may be a good idea to have homemade biomass briquettes on hand already just in case of emergency.
You can use your biomass briquettes in a charcoal grill (outdoors only), in a wood stove or even an empty paint can in an emergency.
In a later article I will show you how to use a mix of paper and natural materials such as leaves to make biomass briquettes.
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Simple biomass briquettes you can make as a survival fuel source. Read full article: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11530
With a simple caulk gun, some pvc tubing and a bit of hardware you can make a biomass briquette press. I show you how in a previous video. The link to that article can be found on the page above.
With access to a source of paper you can make your own survival heating and cooking fuel with ease. All you need is a bunch of shredded paper. If you have a paper shredder then you can shred paper yourself to use for biomass briquettes. You can also make a paper shredder if needed. Or you can shred paper by hand in an emergency.
For people living in the cities where wood as a fuel source is scarce this is a great survival skill to have. After the recent hurricanes on the East Coast many people were left without power for weeks or even months. People had not light, heat or access to clean drinking water.
Knowing how to make biomass briquettes can save your life and make a grid down situation more bearable.
If you live in the city it may be a good idea to have homemade biomass briquettes on hand already just in case of emergency.
You can use your biomass briquettes in a charcoal grill (outdoors only), in a wood stove or even an empty paint can in an emergency.
In a later article I will show you how to use a mix of paper and natural materials such as leaves to make biomass briquettes.
Thanks for watching. Please Subscribe & follow my [daily YouTube videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/techman2015)
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Renewable energies: the return of biomass

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For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since ...

Activate the subtitles in the player window, interviews are in French!
For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for biomass is evident, but its usage must be rational, optimized and adapted to local environments.
A film by GérardGoma (scientific advisor) and Mathias Fyferling

Activate the subtitles in the player window, interviews are in French!
For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for biomass is evident, but its usage must be rational, optimized and adapted to local environments.
A film by GérardGoma (scientific advisor) and Mathias Fyferling

Global Warming: Wind as a Source of Fuel

published: 07 Apr 2015

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

http://www.alternativefuelstips.com
There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
http://www.alternativefuelstips.com

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

http://www.alternativefuelstips.com
There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-...

http://www.alternativefuelstips.com
There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
http://www.alternativefuelstips.com

http://www.alternativefuelstips.com
There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
http://www.alternativefuelstips.com

You Won't Believe it! Free EnergyMachine Shocks The World! Professor Comes Forward 2017! Could John Searl Have the answer to the GlobalEnergyCrisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfather' of free energy or zero point energy science, Professor John Searl believes his magnetic generator, the Searl Effect Generator (SEG), can save our planet. So, what if he's telling the truth? For more information Visit John Searl Website! http://www.johnsearlstory.com/ Also SpecialThanks toKeepers of the EarthLLC & BKLFilms for Video Permission!
Does John Searl Have the answer to the Global Energy Crisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfathe...

HEMP 4 FUEL - 95% Cleaner than Fossil Fuel / No C02 Emission !!!!

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Hemp Seed Oil Biodiesel fuel
Hemp seed oil can be used as is in bio-diesel engines. Methyl esters, or bio-diesel, can be made from any oil or fat including hemp seed oil. The reaction requires the oil, an alcohol (usually methanol), and a catalyst, which produces bio-diesel and small amount of glycerol or glycerin. When co-fired with 15% methanol, bio-diesel fuel produces energy less than 1/3 as pollution as petroleum diesel.
Energy and Fuel from Hemp Stalks through Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the technique of applying high heat to biomass, or organic plants and tree matter, with little or no air. Reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants and automobiles can be accomplished by converting bio...

published: 15 Aug 2012

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

Activate the subtitles in the player window, interviews are in French!
For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for...

MIAC #027 What our Society will be Like During the Grand Solar Minimum 2018-2023

What our Society will be Like During the GrandSolarMinimum 2018-2023
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OmegaGardenRotaryHydroponicSystem with the Farmdominium Omegagarden.com
The time line still stands for drastic cooling and incredible shifts in Earth’s climate system as the grand solar minimum commences from 2018-2023.
Episode #27 with Inventor Lee Wheelbarger is about getting mentally prepared for a pioneering lifestyle and ...

OverwatchLeagueDaily is your daily source for news, scores, and more regarding Overwatch League - the world's first major global esports league featuring city-based teams. Join your host KickedTripod as he provides you with the hottest takes from Overwatch League analysts, players, and coaches.
In this Episode:
Seamoose discusses last night's matches.
Overwatch League Daily records and is posted online 5 days a week before 11AM PT. Follow the show on Twitter @OWLDailyShow. Follow KickedTripod on Twitter @KickedTripod. Want to get in contact with the show? Send us an email to overwatchleaguedaily@gmail.com, send us a DM on Twitter, or join our Discord at http://discord.me/owldailyshow. You can find links to everything else at overwatchleaguedaily.com.

published: 19 Jan 2018

Grid Energy Storage: Beyond Batteries

nvestment in renewable energy infrastructure was higher than in fossil fuel infrastructure. With grid-scale energy storage, intermittent sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, become viable for the grid. VLAB will examine the technology and economics to make this transformation possible.
The global market for energy storage services could be worth as much as $31.5 billion in 2017, according to Lux Research. Additionally, Pike Research forecasts that $122 billion will be invested in energy storage projects between 2011 and 2021.
Today, 99% of the global energy storage is pumped hydro, which is geographically constrained. Now entrepreneurs free us from this constraint with fundamentally new technology challenging conventional expectations of capacity, efficiency and product ...

published: 16 Dec 2012

Making an Artificial Leaf: Creating Hydrogen Fuels through Water, Sunlight and Carbon Dioxide

What if you could copy the process that plants use to create a renewable source of fuel? JoinNathan Lewis, from the California Institute of Technology, as he shares his work on transforming water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to make fuel. This "artificial photosynthesis" is a solar-driven system that splits water to create hydrogen fuels while avoiding common barriers to clean energy production, such as rare and expensive catalysts.

published: 08 Apr 2016

Global Energy and Carbon: Tracking Our Footprint

Tracking Our Footprint follows families in the United States, India and Cameroon to examine how energy is used in three economies: industrialized, emerging, and developing. This documentary explores options to manage carbon emissions from energy use while providing adequate access to energy for the worlds growing populations.

Smart Energy Europe: a 100% Renewable Energy Scenario for the European Union

This study presents one scenario for a 100% renewable energy system in Europe by the year 2050. The transition from a business-as-usual situation in 2050, to a 100% renewable energy Europe is analysed in a series of steps. Each step reflects one major technological change. For each step, the impact is presented in terms of energy (primary energy supply), environment (carbon dioxide emissions), and economy (total annual socio-economic cost). The steps are ordered in terms of their scientific and political certainty as follows: decommissioning nuclear power, implementing a large amount of heat savings, converting the private car fleet to electricity, providing heat in rural areas with heat pumps, providing heat in urban areas with district heating, converting fuel in heavy-duty vehicles to s...

You Won't Believe it! Free EnergyMachine Shocks The World! Professor Comes Forward 2017! Could John Searl Have the answer to the GlobalEnergyCrisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfather' of free energy or zero point energy science, Professor John Searl believes his magnetic generator, the Searl Effect Generator (SEG), can save our planet. So, what if he's telling the truth? For more information Visit John Searl Website! http://www.johnsearlstory.com/ Also SpecialThanks toKeepers of the EarthLLC & BKLFilms for Video Permission!
Does John Searl Have the answer to the Global Energy Crisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfather' of free energy or zero point energy science, Professor John Searl believes his magnetic generator, the Searl Effect Generator (SEG), can save our planet from economic and environmental disaster. So, what if he's telling the truth? For more information Visit John Searl Website! http://www.johnsearlstory.com/ Also Special Thanks to Keepers of the Earth LLC & BKLFilms for Video Permission!

You Won't Believe it! Free EnergyMachine Shocks The World! Professor Comes Forward 2017! Could John Searl Have the answer to the GlobalEnergyCrisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfather' of free energy or zero point energy science, Professor John Searl believes his magnetic generator, the Searl Effect Generator (SEG), can save our planet. So, what if he's telling the truth? For more information Visit John Searl Website! http://www.johnsearlstory.com/ Also SpecialThanks toKeepers of the EarthLLC & BKLFilms for Video Permission!
Does John Searl Have the answer to the Global Energy Crisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfather' of free energy or zero point energy science, Professor John Searl believes his magnetic generator, the Searl Effect Generator (SEG), can save our planet from economic and environmental disaster. So, what if he's telling the truth? For more information Visit John Searl Website! http://www.johnsearlstory.com/ Also Special Thanks to Keepers of the Earth LLC & BKLFilms for Video Permission!

GROWHEMP 4 GASOLINE / FUEL / GAS
Go Green With Hemp
Create100 MillionGREENJOBS in 6 months
Hemp Seed Oil Biodiesel fuel
Hemp seed oil can be used as is in bio-diesel engines. Methyl esters, or bio-diesel, can be made from any oil or fat including hemp seed oil. The reaction requires the oil, an alcohol (usually methanol), and a catalyst, which produces bio-diesel and small amount of glycerol or glycerin. When co-fired with 15% methanol, bio-diesel fuel produces energy less than 1/3 as pollution as petroleum diesel.
Energy and Fuel from Hemp Stalks through Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the technique of applying high heat to biomass, or organic plants and tree matter, with little or no air. Reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants and automobiles can be accomplished by converting biomass to fuel utilizing pyrolysis technology. The process can produce, from lingo-cellulosic material (like the stalks of hemp), charcoal, gasoline, ethanol, non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, methane, and methanol. Process adjustments can be done to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol, with 95.5% fuel-to-feed ratios. Around 68% of the energy of the raw biomass will be contained in the charcoal and fuel oils -- renewable energy generated here at home, instead of overpaying for foreign petroleum.
Pyrolysis facilities can run 3 shifts a day, and since pyrolysis facilities need to be within 50 miles of the energy crop to be cost effective, many new local and rural jobs will be created, not to mention the employment opportunities in trucking and transportation.
Hemp vs. Fossil Fuels
Pyrolysis facilities can use the same technology used now to process fossil fuel oil and coal. Petroleum coal and oil conversion is more efficient in terms of fuel-to-feed ratio, but there are many advantages to conversion by pyrolysis.
1) Biomass has a heating value of 5000-8000 BTU/lb, with virtually no ash or sulfur emissions.
2) Ethanol, methanol, methane gas, and gasoline can be derived from biomass at a fraction of the cost of the current cost of oil, coal, or nuclear energy, especially when environmental costs are factored in. Each acre of hemp could yield about 1000 gallons of methanol.
3) When an energy crop is growing, it takes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, and releases an equal amount when it is burned, creating a balanced system, unlike petroleum fuels, which only release CO2. When an energy crop like hemp is grown on a massive scale, it will initially lower the CO2 in the air, and then stabilize it at a level lower than before the planting of the energy crop.
4) Use of biomass would end acid rain, end sulfer-based smog, and reverse the greenhouse effect.
Hemp Produces the Most Biomass of Any Plant on Earth.
Hemp is at least four times richer in biomass/cellulose potential than its nearest rivals: cornstalks, sugarcane, kenaf, trees, etc.
Hemp produces the most biomass of any crop, which is why it is the natural choice for an energy crop. Hemp converts the sun's energy into cellulose faster than any other plant, through photosynthesis. Hemp can produce 10 tons of biomass per acre every four months. Enough energy could be produced on 6% of the land in the U.S. to provide enough energy for our entire country (cars, heat homes, electricity, industry) -- and we use 25% of the world's energy.
To put which in perspective, right now we pay farmers not to grow on 6% (around 90 million acres) of the farming land, while another 500 million acres of marginal farmland lies fallow. This land could be used to grow hemp as an energy crop.
Conclusion
The most important aspect of industrial hemp farming, the most compelling thing hemp offers us, is fuel. Right now we are depleting our reserves of petroleum and buying it up from other countries. It would be nice if we could have a fuel source which was reusable and which we could grow right here, making us completely energy independent.
Petroleum fuel increases carbon monoxide in the atmosphere and contributes heavily to global warming and the greenhouse effect, which could lead to global catastrophe in the next 50 years if these trends continue. Do you want to find out if they are right, or do you want to grow the most cost effective and environmentally safe fuel source on the planet?
Using hemp as an energy and rotation crop would be a great step in the right direction.
Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil has historically been used as lamp oil. It is said to shine the brightest of all lamp oils. Hemp seed oil lit the lamps of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham the prophet, and was used in the legendary lamps of Aladdin.
Anything which can be made from fossil fuels can be made from an organic substance like hemp. Toxic petrochemicals can be replaced with hemp oil.

GROWHEMP 4 GASOLINE / FUEL / GAS
Go Green With Hemp
Create100 MillionGREENJOBS in 6 months
Hemp Seed Oil Biodiesel fuel
Hemp seed oil can be used as is in bio-diesel engines. Methyl esters, or bio-diesel, can be made from any oil or fat including hemp seed oil. The reaction requires the oil, an alcohol (usually methanol), and a catalyst, which produces bio-diesel and small amount of glycerol or glycerin. When co-fired with 15% methanol, bio-diesel fuel produces energy less than 1/3 as pollution as petroleum diesel.
Energy and Fuel from Hemp Stalks through Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the technique of applying high heat to biomass, or organic plants and tree matter, with little or no air. Reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants and automobiles can be accomplished by converting biomass to fuel utilizing pyrolysis technology. The process can produce, from lingo-cellulosic material (like the stalks of hemp), charcoal, gasoline, ethanol, non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, methane, and methanol. Process adjustments can be done to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol, with 95.5% fuel-to-feed ratios. Around 68% of the energy of the raw biomass will be contained in the charcoal and fuel oils -- renewable energy generated here at home, instead of overpaying for foreign petroleum.
Pyrolysis facilities can run 3 shifts a day, and since pyrolysis facilities need to be within 50 miles of the energy crop to be cost effective, many new local and rural jobs will be created, not to mention the employment opportunities in trucking and transportation.
Hemp vs. Fossil Fuels
Pyrolysis facilities can use the same technology used now to process fossil fuel oil and coal. Petroleum coal and oil conversion is more efficient in terms of fuel-to-feed ratio, but there are many advantages to conversion by pyrolysis.
1) Biomass has a heating value of 5000-8000 BTU/lb, with virtually no ash or sulfur emissions.
2) Ethanol, methanol, methane gas, and gasoline can be derived from biomass at a fraction of the cost of the current cost of oil, coal, or nuclear energy, especially when environmental costs are factored in. Each acre of hemp could yield about 1000 gallons of methanol.
3) When an energy crop is growing, it takes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, and releases an equal amount when it is burned, creating a balanced system, unlike petroleum fuels, which only release CO2. When an energy crop like hemp is grown on a massive scale, it will initially lower the CO2 in the air, and then stabilize it at a level lower than before the planting of the energy crop.
4) Use of biomass would end acid rain, end sulfer-based smog, and reverse the greenhouse effect.
Hemp Produces the Most Biomass of Any Plant on Earth.
Hemp is at least four times richer in biomass/cellulose potential than its nearest rivals: cornstalks, sugarcane, kenaf, trees, etc.
Hemp produces the most biomass of any crop, which is why it is the natural choice for an energy crop. Hemp converts the sun's energy into cellulose faster than any other plant, through photosynthesis. Hemp can produce 10 tons of biomass per acre every four months. Enough energy could be produced on 6% of the land in the U.S. to provide enough energy for our entire country (cars, heat homes, electricity, industry) -- and we use 25% of the world's energy.
To put which in perspective, right now we pay farmers not to grow on 6% (around 90 million acres) of the farming land, while another 500 million acres of marginal farmland lies fallow. This land could be used to grow hemp as an energy crop.
Conclusion
The most important aspect of industrial hemp farming, the most compelling thing hemp offers us, is fuel. Right now we are depleting our reserves of petroleum and buying it up from other countries. It would be nice if we could have a fuel source which was reusable and which we could grow right here, making us completely energy independent.
Petroleum fuel increases carbon monoxide in the atmosphere and contributes heavily to global warming and the greenhouse effect, which could lead to global catastrophe in the next 50 years if these trends continue. Do you want to find out if they are right, or do you want to grow the most cost effective and environmentally safe fuel source on the planet?
Using hemp as an energy and rotation crop would be a great step in the right direction.
Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil has historically been used as lamp oil. It is said to shine the brightest of all lamp oils. Hemp seed oil lit the lamps of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham the prophet, and was used in the legendary lamps of Aladdin.
Anything which can be made from fossil fuels can be made from an organic substance like hemp. Toxic petrochemicals can be replaced with hemp oil.

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

Activate the subtitles in the player window, interviews are in French!
For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since ...

Activate the subtitles in the player window, interviews are in French!
For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for biomass is evident, but its usage must be rational, optimized and adapted to local environments.
A film by GérardGoma (scientific advisor) and Mathias Fyferling

Activate the subtitles in the player window, interviews are in French!
For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for biomass is evident, but its usage must be rational, optimized and adapted to local environments.
A film by GérardGoma (scientific advisor) and Mathias Fyferling

What our Society will be Like During the GrandSolarMinimum 2018-2023
Episode #027 MiniIce AgeConversations on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/adapt-2030/miac-027-what-our-society-will-be-like-during-the-grand-solar-minimum-2018-2023
Episode #027 Mini Ice Age Conversations on Libsyn http://adapt2030.libsyn.com/miac-027-what-our-society-will-be-like-during-the-grand-solar-minimum-2018-2023
SupportADAPT2030 on PATREON http://www.patreon.com/adapt2030
OmegaGardenRotaryHydroponicSystem with the Farmdominium Omegagarden.com
The time line still stands for drastic cooling and incredible shifts in Earth’s climate system as the grand solar minimum commences from 2018-2023.
Episode #27 with Inventor Lee Wheelbarger is about getting mentally prepared for a pioneering lifestyle and a look at Electrical phenomenon around the planet that is surging to be noticeable by all.
When the New Madrid fault line awakens again as its doing now, the gas and oil pipes will be severed and fuels will be unavailable. If this happens during winter 10s of millions of households will be without a fuel source to heat their homes, not to mention the ripple effects and spinoffs into the economy.
Moving agriculture to indoor led growing facilities as the outdoor climate will become too unstable and too hostile. It’s all about rotary drum grow systems, the correct wave lengths of light to grow plants and the machinery / hardware involved to replace lost crops from the fields.
Countries have been annexing land for a decade knowing this Grand Solar Minimum was coming, but the Obama administration did nothing to prepare. We also delve into the certainty of scientists that show massive shifts in global cloud patterns due to increased cosmic rays and subsequent effects on our weather with more clouds.
Railroads will be brought back as the economy shrinks in the USA as the cheapest form of transport and delivery. New boom towns will emerge as a repeat in history. This technology of laying rails can be brought back on line so rapidly compared with rebuilding entire roadways. A majority of transport will be going by rail.
If every government in the world came to agreement and worked together, we could put together solutions, but at this rate we are out of time and little preparation has been done. You are on your own.
Omega Garden Rotary Hydroponic System with the Farmdominium Omegagarden.com
http://omegagarden.com/portfolio-items/current-models-gallery/

What our Society will be Like During the GrandSolarMinimum 2018-2023
Episode #027 MiniIce AgeConversations on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/adapt-2030/miac-027-what-our-society-will-be-like-during-the-grand-solar-minimum-2018-2023
Episode #027 Mini Ice Age Conversations on Libsyn http://adapt2030.libsyn.com/miac-027-what-our-society-will-be-like-during-the-grand-solar-minimum-2018-2023
SupportADAPT2030 on PATREON http://www.patreon.com/adapt2030
OmegaGardenRotaryHydroponicSystem with the Farmdominium Omegagarden.com
The time line still stands for drastic cooling and incredible shifts in Earth’s climate system as the grand solar minimum commences from 2018-2023.
Episode #27 with Inventor Lee Wheelbarger is about getting mentally prepared for a pioneering lifestyle and a look at Electrical phenomenon around the planet that is surging to be noticeable by all.
When the New Madrid fault line awakens again as its doing now, the gas and oil pipes will be severed and fuels will be unavailable. If this happens during winter 10s of millions of households will be without a fuel source to heat their homes, not to mention the ripple effects and spinoffs into the economy.
Moving agriculture to indoor led growing facilities as the outdoor climate will become too unstable and too hostile. It’s all about rotary drum grow systems, the correct wave lengths of light to grow plants and the machinery / hardware involved to replace lost crops from the fields.
Countries have been annexing land for a decade knowing this Grand Solar Minimum was coming, but the Obama administration did nothing to prepare. We also delve into the certainty of scientists that show massive shifts in global cloud patterns due to increased cosmic rays and subsequent effects on our weather with more clouds.
Railroads will be brought back as the economy shrinks in the USA as the cheapest form of transport and delivery. New boom towns will emerge as a repeat in history. This technology of laying rails can be brought back on line so rapidly compared with rebuilding entire roadways. A majority of transport will be going by rail.
If every government in the world came to agreement and worked together, we could put together solutions, but at this rate we are out of time and little preparation has been done. You are on your own.
Omega Garden Rotary Hydroponic System with the Farmdominium Omegagarden.com
http://omegagarden.com/portfolio-items/current-models-gallery/

OverwatchLeagueDaily is your daily source for news, scores, and more regarding Overwatch League - the world's first major global esports league featuring cit...

OverwatchLeagueDaily is your daily source for news, scores, and more regarding Overwatch League - the world's first major global esports league featuring city-based teams. Join your host KickedTripod as he provides you with the hottest takes from Overwatch League analysts, players, and coaches.
In this Episode:
Seamoose discusses last night's matches.
Overwatch League Daily records and is posted online 5 days a week before 11AM PT. Follow the show on Twitter @OWLDailyShow. Follow KickedTripod on Twitter @KickedTripod. Want to get in contact with the show? Send us an email to overwatchleaguedaily@gmail.com, send us a DM on Twitter, or join our Discord at http://discord.me/owldailyshow. You can find links to everything else at overwatchleaguedaily.com.

OverwatchLeagueDaily is your daily source for news, scores, and more regarding Overwatch League - the world's first major global esports league featuring city-based teams. Join your host KickedTripod as he provides you with the hottest takes from Overwatch League analysts, players, and coaches.
In this Episode:
Seamoose discusses last night's matches.
Overwatch League Daily records and is posted online 5 days a week before 11AM PT. Follow the show on Twitter @OWLDailyShow. Follow KickedTripod on Twitter @KickedTripod. Want to get in contact with the show? Send us an email to overwatchleaguedaily@gmail.com, send us a DM on Twitter, or join our Discord at http://discord.me/owldailyshow. You can find links to everything else at overwatchleaguedaily.com.

nvestment in renewable energy infrastructure was higher than in fossil fuel infrastructure. With grid-scale energy storage, intermittent sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, become viable for the grid. VLAB will examine the technology and economics to make this transformation possible.
The global market for energy storage services could be worth as much as $31.5 billion in 2017, according to Lux Research. Additionally, Pike Research forecasts that $122 billion will be invested in energy storage projects between 2011 and 2021.
Today, 99% of the global energy storage is pumped hydro, which is geographically constrained. Now entrepreneurs free us from this constraint with fundamentally new technology challenging conventional expectations of capacity, efficiency and product life.
Where are the best business opportunities for these start-ups -- at green energy farms? on the grid? or at the consumer's home or business?
What are key metrics to make this economically viable, without subsidies? Efficiency, life-time costs, Capex?
Will advances in traditional pumped hydro and compressed air prevail over battery/chemical technologies?
Which countries are leading in Energy Storage on/off the grid?
When will these new technologies become profitable?
How and when will US utility companies get on-board?
Join us to Learn More.
Moderator:
Eric Wesoff, Editor-in-Chief, Greentech Media
Panelists:
Professor Jay Whitacre, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aquion Energy
Dr. Steve Crane, Co-Founder and CEO, LightSail Energy
Haresh Kamath, Strategic Program Manager, Energy Storage at EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)
Abe Yokell, Partner,RockportCapital

nvestment in renewable energy infrastructure was higher than in fossil fuel infrastructure. With grid-scale energy storage, intermittent sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, become viable for the grid. VLAB will examine the technology and economics to make this transformation possible.
The global market for energy storage services could be worth as much as $31.5 billion in 2017, according to Lux Research. Additionally, Pike Research forecasts that $122 billion will be invested in energy storage projects between 2011 and 2021.
Today, 99% of the global energy storage is pumped hydro, which is geographically constrained. Now entrepreneurs free us from this constraint with fundamentally new technology challenging conventional expectations of capacity, efficiency and product life.
Where are the best business opportunities for these start-ups -- at green energy farms? on the grid? or at the consumer's home or business?
What are key metrics to make this economically viable, without subsidies? Efficiency, life-time costs, Capex?
Will advances in traditional pumped hydro and compressed air prevail over battery/chemical technologies?
Which countries are leading in Energy Storage on/off the grid?
When will these new technologies become profitable?
How and when will US utility companies get on-board?
Join us to Learn More.
Moderator:
Eric Wesoff, Editor-in-Chief, Greentech Media
Panelists:
Professor Jay Whitacre, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aquion Energy
Dr. Steve Crane, Co-Founder and CEO, LightSail Energy
Haresh Kamath, Strategic Program Manager, Energy Storage at EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)
Abe Yokell, Partner,RockportCapital

published:16 Dec 2012

views:237076

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Making an Artificial Leaf: Creating Hydrogen Fuels through Water, Sunlight and Carbon Dioxide

What if you could copy the process that plants use to create a renewable source of fuel? JoinNathan Lewis, from the California Institute of Technology, as he shares his work on transforming water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to make fuel. This "artificial photosynthesis" is a solar-driven system that splits water to create hydrogen fuels while avoiding common barriers to clean energy production, such as rare and expensive catalysts.

What if you could copy the process that plants use to create a renewable source of fuel? JoinNathan Lewis, from the California Institute of Technology, as he shares his work on transforming water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to make fuel. This "artificial photosynthesis" is a solar-driven system that splits water to create hydrogen fuels while avoiding common barriers to clean energy production, such as rare and expensive catalysts.

Tracking Our Footprint follows families in the United States, India and Cameroon to examine how energy is used in three economies: industrialized, emerging, and developing. This documentary explores options to manage carbon emissions from energy use while providing adequate access to energy for the worlds growing populations.

Tracking Our Footprint follows families in the United States, India and Cameroon to examine how energy is used in three economies: industrialized, emerging, and developing. This documentary explores options to manage carbon emissions from energy use while providing adequate access to energy for the worlds growing populations.

This study presents one scenario for a 100% renewable energy system in Europe by the year 2050. The transition from a business-as-usual situation in 2050, to a 100% renewable energy Europe is analysed in a series of steps. Each step reflects one major technological change. For each step, the impact is presented in terms of energy (primary energy supply), environment (carbon dioxide emissions), and economy (total annual socio-economic cost). The steps are ordered in terms of their scientific and political certainty as follows: decommissioning nuclear power, implementing a large amount of heat savings, converting the private car fleet to electricity, providing heat in rural areas with heat pumps, providing heat in urban areas with district heating, converting fuel in heavy-duty vehicles to synthetic fuel, and replacing natural gas with synthetic methane. The results indicate that by using the SmartEnergySystem approach, a 100% renewable energy system in Europe is technically possible without consuming an unsustainable amount of bioenergy. This is due to the additional flexibility that is created by connecting the electricity, heating, cooling, and transport sectors together, which enables an intermittent renewable penetration of over 80% in the electricity sector. The cost of the Smart Energy Europe scenario is approximately 10-15% higher than a business-as-usual scenario, but since the final scenario is based on local investments instead of imported fuels, it will create approximately 10 million additional direct jobs within the EU.

This study presents one scenario for a 100% renewable energy system in Europe by the year 2050. The transition from a business-as-usual situation in 2050, to a 100% renewable energy Europe is analysed in a series of steps. Each step reflects one major technological change. For each step, the impact is presented in terms of energy (primary energy supply), environment (carbon dioxide emissions), and economy (total annual socio-economic cost). The steps are ordered in terms of their scientific and political certainty as follows: decommissioning nuclear power, implementing a large amount of heat savings, converting the private car fleet to electricity, providing heat in rural areas with heat pumps, providing heat in urban areas with district heating, converting fuel in heavy-duty vehicles to synthetic fuel, and replacing natural gas with synthetic methane. The results indicate that by using the SmartEnergySystem approach, a 100% renewable energy system in Europe is technically possible without consuming an unsustainable amount of bioenergy. This is due to the additional flexibility that is created by connecting the electricity, heating, cooling, and transport sectors together, which enables an intermittent renewable penetration of over 80% in the electricity sector. The cost of the Smart Energy Europe scenario is approximately 10-15% higher than a business-as-usual scenario, but since the final scenario is based on local investments instead of imported fuels, it will create approximately 10 million additional direct jobs within the EU.

How Algae Could Change The Fossil Fuel Industry

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Great strides have been made in recent years towards using renewable sources of energy, like electric vehicles, solar panels, wind energy and even algae. It might seem surprising, but algae is one of the most powerful sources of energy we have access to on Earth. When dried algae is ground into a powder and refined, oil can be extracted from it. The result is nearly identical to traditional gasoline, but with far more benefits.
Dave Hazlebeck, CEO of Global Algae Innovations, gave Seeker a tour of his algae farm in Kauai, Hawaii, and explained how his company is revolutionizing sustainable energy. "The fuel that we're producing is exactly the same in terms of performance as gasoline or diesel or jet, it's just a lot cleaner. I think the big difference is that [with] all the other biofuels, you're growing it and you're just getting biofuel. In this case, for every gallon of biofuel you get 10 pounds of food with it," Hazlebeck said.
Hazlebeck believes his company is on the path to completely change the way we currently produce both oil and food. Not only can algae create biofuel, it can also be used to create animal feed. Currently, most animal and fish feed is made from corn or soy, which both use more water and energy to grow than algae.
"There's studies that show with algae grown to replace animal feed, you could actually solve global warming to a large extent," Hazlebeck told Seeker.
Algae can be used to create food for humans as well. New Wave Foods in Northern California created fake shrimp made from algae and other plants that actually looks, smells and even tastes like real shrimp. Because it's made from algae, the shrimp substitute also has the added benefit of being low in fat and extremely rich in nutrients, something that corn and soy are severely lacking.
Growing algae for oil and food could also significantly reduce deforestation. According to Scientific American, the yields from algae are far more significant than crops like corn or soy. If all the fuel in the country was replaced with biofuel from corn, we would need a facility three times the size of the continental U.S. to produce it. But for algae, we would need a facility the size of Maryland. Additionally, algae can produce 40 times more food per acre than traditional crops.
While showing the Seeker team around GAI's Hawaii facility, Hazlebeck explained that the algae farm is next to a power plant, which puts it in a very unique position. "[It] allows us to capture carbon dioxide and avoid that discharge and reuse it, and that prevents it from going into the atmosphere and causing global warming," he said. "If every power plant had an algae farm next to it, it could potentially solve the global warming issue entirely."
The environmental benefits of algae are impressive, and because algae can grow in both freshwater and seawater, it's also very easy to produce. So, does that mean we'll all be filling our cars with algae gas at the pumps very soon?
Not just yet. Hazlebeck and his team have run into a few setbacks since they began scaling up their operations. The most prohibitive issue has been the cost.
When Global Algae Innovations began, a gallon of oil produced from algae was about $30 a gallon -- 10 times higher than it needs to be to work as a viable alternative to fossil fuel. But Hazlebeck and his team didn't give up, and they've continued to come up with solutions to decrease the cost. As of now, they almost have algae oil down to only $2 - $3 a gallon.
Once GAI can get their algae production up to scale, Hazlebeck believes it will change the geopolitics of the world. "A lot of the reasons we have wars are because of fights over resources or the need for more resources. By creating a more equitable distribution with countries being able to make their own, it should lead to a more stable and peaceful world," he told Seeker.
That's really the point of it all for Hazlebeck and GAI. They don't want to be the only company doing this; they want everyone working together because they truly believe using algae as a fuel and food source will change the world.
Executive Producer: Laura LingProducers: Paige Keipper (Hansen), Conor Spicer
Cinematographers: Matthew Piniol Spencer Snider
Editor: Lee Mould

1:31

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

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There is great tension between major oil consuming ...

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

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There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
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3:46

How Hydrogen Fuel Is Made

Is hydrogen fuel the future of car fuel? How is it made?
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Hydrogen May Prove...

How Hydrogen Fuel Is Made

Is hydrogen fuel the future of car fuel? How is it made?
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Hydrogen May Prove Fuel of the Futurehttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-may-prove-fuel-of-the-future/
“Humans have harnessed hydrogen for a variety of applications, from blasting rockets into space to making common household products like toothpaste.”
Hydrogen Production From Natural Gas, Sequestration Of Recovered CO2 In Depleted GasWells And Enhanced Natural Gas Recovery
https://www.princeton.edu/pei/energy/publications/texts/Hydrogen_production_natural_gas.pdf
“If fuel cells are introduced for vehicular applications, hydrogen might become an energy carrier for transport applications.”
The Truth About Hydrogen
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/4199381
“Wild promises abound, but can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.”
Hydrogen Production and Distribution
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_production.html
“Although abundant on earth as an element, hydrogen is almost always found as part of another compound, such as water (H2O) and must be separated from the compounds that contain it.”
How the Hydrogen EconomyWorks
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/hydrogen-economy1.htm
“Currently, the United States and most of the world is locked into what could be called the fossil fuel economy.”
Fuel CellBasics
http://americanhistory.si.edu/fuelcells/basics.htm
“Through this website we are seeking historical materials relating to fuel cells.”
Is 2014 the Year of the Fuel Cell Car?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-2014-the-year-of-the-fuel-cell-car/
“For almost two decades, fuel-cell electric vehicles have been another five years away. That is, until now, according to major automakers.”
Will Hydrogen CarsFinallyHitThe Road?
http://www.futurity.org/hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles-752732/
“A number of factors are converging to make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles more attractive to investors and consumers, according to a new report.”
Hydrogen Cars, Coming Down the Pike
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/hydrogen-cars-coming-down-the-pike.html?_r=0
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We Can Power The World With Algae!

Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can ...

We Can Power The World With Algae!

Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel?
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What Are Algae?
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"Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond scum or the algal blooms in lakes. However, there exists a vast and varied world of algae that are not only helpful to us, but are critical to our existence."
Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3152439/
"Algae biofuels may provide a viable alternative to fossil fuels; however, this technology must overcome a number of hurdles before it can compete in the fuel market and be broadly deployed."
Biofuels: The Original Car Fuel
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/biofuel-profile/
"Biofuels have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil."
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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energ...

Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is green energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems? Or should we be relying on things like natural gas, nuclear energy, and even coal for our energy needs and environmental obligations? Alex Epstein of the Center for IndustrialProgress explains.
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Are wind and solar power the answer to our energy needs? There’s a lot of sun and a lot of wind. They’re free. They’re clean. No CO2 emissions. So, what’s the problem?
Why do solar and wind combined provide less than 2% of the world’s energy?
To answer these questions, we need to understand what makes energy, or anything else for that matter, cheap and plentiful.
For something to be cheap and plentiful, every part of the process to produce it, including every input that goes into it, must be cheap and plentiful.
Yes, the sun is free. Yes, wind is free. But the process of turning sunlight and wind into useable energy on a mass scale is far from free. In fact, compared to the other sources of energy -- fossil fuels, nuclear power, and hydroelectric power, solar and wind power are very expensive.
The basic problem is that sunlight and wind as energy sources are both weak (the more technical term is dilute) and unreliable (the more technical term is intermittent). It takes a lot of resources to collect and concentrate them, and even more resources to make them available on-demand. These are called the diluteness problem and the intermittency problem.
The diluteness problem is that, unlike coal or oil, the sun and the wind don’t deliver concentrated energy -- which means you need a lot of additional materials to produce a unit of energy.
For solar power, such materials can include highly purified silicon, phosphorus, boron, and a dozen other complex compounds like titanium dioxide. All these materials have to be mined, refined and/or manufactured in order to make solar panels. Those industrial processes take a lot of energy.
For wind, needed materials include high-performance compounds for turbine blades and the rare-earth metal neodymium for lightweight, specialty magnets, as well as the steel and concrete necessary to build structures -- thousands of them -- as tall as skyscrapers.
And as big a problem as diluteness is, it’s nothing compared to the intermittency problem. This isn’t exactly a news flash, but the sun doesn’t shine all the time. And the wind doesn’t blow all the time. The only way for solar and wind to be truly useful would be if we could store them so that they would be available when we needed them. You can store oil in a tank. Where do you store solar or wind energy? No such mass-storage system exists. Which is why, in the entire world, there is not one real or proposed independent, freestanding solar or wind power plant. All of them require backup. And guess what the go-to back-up is: fossil fuel.
Here’s what solar and wind electricity look like in Germany, which is the world’s leader in “renewables”. The word erratic leaps to mind. Wind is constantly varying, sometimes disappearing completely. And solar produces little in the winter months when Germany most needs energy.
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7:29

How To Make Energy Gels Work For You – Fuel Like A Pro Cyclist

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Energy gels are the best ways to get a quick carbohydrate fix on ...

Are Electric Cars Really Green?

Are electric cars greener than conventional gasoline cars? If so, how much greener? What about the CO2 emissions produced during electric cars' production? And where does the electricity that powers electric cars come from? Environmental economist Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, examines how environmentally friendly electric cars really are.
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Do electric cars really help the environment? President Obama thinks so. So does Leonardo DiCaprio. And many others.
The argument goes like this:
Regular cars run on gasoline, a fossil fuel that pumps CO2 straight out of the tailpipe and into the atmosphere. Electric cars run on electricity. They don’t burn any gasoline at all. No gas; no CO2. In fact, electric cars are often advertised as creating “zero emissions.” But do they really? Let’s take a closer look.
First, there’s the energy needed to produce the car. More than a third of the lifetime carbon-dioxide emissions from an electric car comes from the energy used make the car itself, especially the battery. The mining of lithium, for instance, is not a green activity. When an electric car rolls off the production line, it’s already been responsible for more than 25,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: just 16,000 pounds.
But that’s not the end of the CO2 emissions. Because while it’s true that electric cars don’t run on gasoline, they do run on electricity, which, in the U.S. is often produced by another fossil fuel -- coal. As green venture capitalist Vinod Khosla likes to point out, "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000-mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.
A comparable MercedesCDIA160 over a similar lifetime will emit just 3 tons more across its production, diesel consumption and ultimate scrapping. The results are similar for a top-line Tesla, the king of electric cars. It emits about 44 tons, which is only 5 tons less than a similar Audi A7 Quattro.
So throughout the full life of an electric car, it will emit just three to five tons less CO2. In Europe, on its EuropeanTrading System, it currently costs $7 to cut one ton of CO2. So the entire climate benefit of an electric car is about $35. Yet the U.S. federal government essentially provides electric car buyers with a subsidy of up to $7,500.
Paying $7,500 for something you could get for $35 is a very poor deal. And that doesn’t include the billions more in federal and state grants, loans and tax write-offs that go directly to battery and electric-car makers
The other main benefit from electric cars is supposed to be lower pollution. But remember Vinod Khosla’s observation "Electric cars are coal-powered cars."
Yes, it might be powered by coal, proponents will say, but unlike the regular car, coal plant emissions are far away from the city centers where most people live and where damage from air pollution is greatest. However, new research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that while gasoline cars pollute closer to home, coal-fired power actually pollutes more -- a lot more.
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A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman

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Energy is neither created nor destroyed — and yet the global demand for it continues to increase. But where does energy come from, and where does it go? Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in which energy cycles through our planet, from the sun to our food chain to electricity and beyond.
Lesson by Joshua M. Sneideman, animation by Marc Christoforidis.

BBC Countryfile at BGI ~ Farming Crops for Fuel BIOFUELS

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BGI is an innovative energy company that delivers both highly flexible and cost effective solutions for green energy generation in the UK.
We are the UK's exclusive distributor of the Austrian manufactured Biokompakt® range of Biomass Boilers - the only true multi-fuel boilers available on the market.
These boilers are different from other biomass boilers in that they can burn a wide range of alternative, high calorific and cost effective biomass fuels which enables you to locally source your own fuels which are cheaper to produce and will insulate you against future price rises.
The Biokompakt® boilers are triple fuel and can burn up to 3 different fuel types, simultaneously, from over 30 pre-tested fuel sources, including agricultural and factory waste.
They are capable of co-firing and are built to last since all our boilers have a ceramic chamber which prevents corrosion.
They can take a wood chip size of up to 60mm which means you can use a local tree surgeon’s chipper and don’t need to invest in a dedicated biomass chipper
They are easy to operate, reliable, and come with a fully automated fuel feed system.
They are Microcomputer controlled, with self-optimizing fuel adjustment for optimum efficiency .
The boiler systems are available from small 15kw to large 130kw and can be cascaded to 1 megawatt
They offer a sensational efficiency rating of up to 94.3%
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Buildings are often just as unique and individual as their owners and our mission is to respond to these demands and offer an optimal solution. Which is why BGI offer a bespoke boiler design service. We will undertake a site survey and work directly with you to create the most cost effective system for your specific needs. We have a highly trained accredited installer network covering the whole of the UK who will expertly install your boiler, once the designs are agreed. BGI also offer a full back up and design service, full operation training and maintenance contracts.
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Why be tied to wood pellets when you can locally source your own biomass fuels?
BGI can supply you with a variety of locally sourced biomass fuels and can advise on which fuel would work best for your specific requirements.
Our delivery / feed systems are designed to make it easier to receive the fuels. A lorry will arrive and blow the fuel directly into your boiler store, or alternatively, it can be supplied in bags. The system is easy and requires no labour from your end. We are constantly researching alternative biomass fuels and will provide you with the very latest research and fuel solutions available.
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4:23

Science Can Now Turn Plastic Bags Into Fuel!

Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do thi...

Science Can Now Turn Plastic Bags Into Fuel!

Scientists have figured out how to turn polyethylene into diesel fuel! How did they do this and what does it mean for the future of plastic?
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Fish Now ThinkPlastic Is Food
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"Tiny bits of plastic are so prevalent in oceans and other bodies of water that fish now see them as food, reports a new study. Ingesting the particles can lead to odd-behaving mutant fish that often die young."
Efficient and selective degradation of polyethylenes into liquid fuels and waxes under mild conditions
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1501591.full
"Polyethylene (PE) is the largest-volume synthetic polymer, and its chemical inertness makes its degradation by low-energy processes a challenging problem. We report a tandem catalytic cross alkane metathesis method for highly efficient degradation of polyethylenes under mild conditions."
Global Plastic Production Rises, Recycling Lags
http://www.worldwatch.org/global-plastic-production-rises-recycling-lags-0
"Worldwide plastic production has been growing as the durable, primarily petroleum-based material gradually replaces materials like glass and metal. Today, an average person living in Western Europe or North America consumes 100 kilograms of plastic each year, mostly in the form of packaging."
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How To Make Biomass Briquettes For Survival Fuel

Simple biomass briquettes you can make as a survival fuel source. Read full article: http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/articles/article.php?id=11530
With a simple caulk gun, some pvc tubing and a bit of hardware you can make a biomass briquette press. I show you how in a previous video. The link to that article can be found on the page above.
With access to a source of paper you can make your own survival heating and cooking fuel with ease. All you need is a bunch of shredded paper. If you have a paper shredder then you can shred paper yourself to use for biomass briquettes. You can also make a paper shredder if needed. Or you can shred paper by hand in an emergency.
For people living in the cities where wood as a fuel source is scarce this is a great survival skill to have. After the recent hurricanes on the East Coast many people were left without power for weeks or even months. People had not light, heat or access to clean drinking water.
Knowing how to make biomass briquettes can save your life and make a grid down situation more bearable.
If you live in the city it may be a good idea to have homemade biomass briquettes on hand already just in case of emergency.
You can use your biomass briquettes in a charcoal grill (outdoors only), in a wood stove or even an empty paint can in an emergency.
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Renewable energies: the return of biomass

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For thousands of y...

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

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For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for biomass is evident, but its usage must be rational, optimized and adapted to local environments.
A film by GérardGoma (scientific advisor) and Mathias Fyferling

Alternative Fuels Sources- Ultimate Solution to Global Fuel Problem

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There is great tension between major oil consuming countries and major oil producing countries over how to meet the ever-growing demand for oil. Considering all this, there is also a growing sense of urgency in discovering or developing alternative sources of energy that would reduce the dependence on conventional fuels. And it may surprise you to know that water is seriously being considered as one of the sources of alternative fuel.
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You Won't Believe it! Free EnergyMachine Shocks The World! Professor Comes Forward 2017! Could John Searl Have the answer to the GlobalEnergyCrisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfather' of free energy or zero point energy science, Professor John Searl believes his magnetic generator, the Searl Effect Generator (SEG), can save our planet. So, what if he's telling the truth? For more information Visit John Searl Website! http://www.johnsearlstory.com/ Also SpecialThanks toKeepers of the EarthLLC & BKLFilms for Video Permission!
Does John Searl Have the answer to the Global Energy Crisis? John Searl claims he does ...Furthermore, Searl says he's had it for over 60 years. Regarded by many as 'The Godfather' of free energy or zero point energy science, Professor John Searl believes his magnetic generator, the Searl Effect Generator (SEG), can save our planet from economic and environmental disaster. So, what if he's telling the truth? For more information Visit John Searl Website! http://www.johnsearlstory.com/ Also Special Thanks to Keepers of the Earth LLC & BKLFilms for Video Permission!

56:47

Hydrogen; Nature's Fuel

This documentary tells the story of hydrogen through a series of intriguing interviews fro...

HEMP 4 FUEL - 95% Cleaner than Fossil Fuel / No C02 Emission !!!!

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Hemp Seed Oil Biodiesel fuel
Hemp seed oil can be used as is in bio-diesel engines. Methyl esters, or bio-diesel, can be made from any oil or fat including hemp seed oil. The reaction requires the oil, an alcohol (usually methanol), and a catalyst, which produces bio-diesel and small amount of glycerol or glycerin. When co-fired with 15% methanol, bio-diesel fuel produces energy less than 1/3 as pollution as petroleum diesel.
Energy and Fuel from Hemp Stalks through Pyrolysis
Pyrolysis is the technique of applying high heat to biomass, or organic plants and tree matter, with little or no air. Reduced emissions from coal-fired power plants and automobiles can be accomplished by converting biomass to fuel utilizing pyrolysis technology. The process can produce, from lingo-cellulosic material (like the stalks of hemp), charcoal, gasoline, ethanol, non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, methane, and methanol. Process adjustments can be done to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol, with 95.5% fuel-to-feed ratios. Around 68% of the energy of the raw biomass will be contained in the charcoal and fuel oils -- renewable energy generated here at home, instead of overpaying for foreign petroleum.
Pyrolysis facilities can run 3 shifts a day, and since pyrolysis facilities need to be within 50 miles of the energy crop to be cost effective, many new local and rural jobs will be created, not to mention the employment opportunities in trucking and transportation.
Hemp vs. Fossil Fuels
Pyrolysis facilities can use the same technology used now to process fossil fuel oil and coal. Petroleum coal and oil conversion is more efficient in terms of fuel-to-feed ratio, but there are many advantages to conversion by pyrolysis.
1) Biomass has a heating value of 5000-8000 BTU/lb, with virtually no ash or sulfur emissions.
2) Ethanol, methanol, methane gas, and gasoline can be derived from biomass at a fraction of the cost of the current cost of oil, coal, or nuclear energy, especially when environmental costs are factored in. Each acre of hemp could yield about 1000 gallons of methanol.
3) When an energy crop is growing, it takes carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, and releases an equal amount when it is burned, creating a balanced system, unlike petroleum fuels, which only release CO2. When an energy crop like hemp is grown on a massive scale, it will initially lower the CO2 in the air, and then stabilize it at a level lower than before the planting of the energy crop.
4) Use of biomass would end acid rain, end sulfer-based smog, and reverse the greenhouse effect.
Hemp Produces the Most Biomass of Any Plant on Earth.
Hemp is at least four times richer in biomass/cellulose potential than its nearest rivals: cornstalks, sugarcane, kenaf, trees, etc.
Hemp produces the most biomass of any crop, which is why it is the natural choice for an energy crop. Hemp converts the sun's energy into cellulose faster than any other plant, through photosynthesis. Hemp can produce 10 tons of biomass per acre every four months. Enough energy could be produced on 6% of the land in the U.S. to provide enough energy for our entire country (cars, heat homes, electricity, industry) -- and we use 25% of the world's energy.
To put which in perspective, right now we pay farmers not to grow on 6% (around 90 million acres) of the farming land, while another 500 million acres of marginal farmland lies fallow. This land could be used to grow hemp as an energy crop.
Conclusion
The most important aspect of industrial hemp farming, the most compelling thing hemp offers us, is fuel. Right now we are depleting our reserves of petroleum and buying it up from other countries. It would be nice if we could have a fuel source which was reusable and which we could grow right here, making us completely energy independent.
Petroleum fuel increases carbon monoxide in the atmosphere and contributes heavily to global warming and the greenhouse effect, which could lead to global catastrophe in the next 50 years if these trends continue. Do you want to find out if they are right, or do you want to grow the most cost effective and environmentally safe fuel source on the planet?
Using hemp as an energy and rotation crop would be a great step in the right direction.
Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil has historically been used as lamp oil. It is said to shine the brightest of all lamp oils. Hemp seed oil lit the lamps of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham the prophet, and was used in the legendary lamps of Aladdin.
Anything which can be made from fossil fuels can be made from an organic substance like hemp. Toxic petrochemicals can be replaced with hemp oil.

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Renewable energies: the return of biomass

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For thousands of y...

Renewable energies: the return of biomass

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For thousands of years biomass (organic matter) was the primary source of energy. Since the industrial revolution, the combustion of fossil fuels, accounting for 87% of today’s global energy package, has replaced biomass as the primary source. Yet issues surrounding energy and food production and sustainable development engender new perspectives on the production of bio-fuels, especially from by-products of agro-industry and forestry. Biomass, now supporting 10% of world energy consumption, could increase to provide 25% of global energy needs.
This film combines figures, schematics, and interviews with professionals in the field (e.g. economist, farmer, mechanic, researcher, aircraft manufacturer...). The potential for biomass is evident, but its usage must be rational, optimized and adapted to local environments.
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MIAC #027 What our Society will be Like During the Grand Solar Minimum 2018-2023

What our Society will be Like During the GrandSolarMinimum 2018-2023
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The time line still stands for drastic cooling and incredible shifts in Earth’s climate system as the grand solar minimum commences from 2018-2023.
Episode #27 with Inventor Lee Wheelbarger is about getting mentally prepared for a pioneering lifestyle and a look at Electrical phenomenon around the planet that is surging to be noticeable by all.
When the New Madrid fault line awakens again as its doing now, the gas and oil pipes will be severed and fuels will be unavailable. If this happens during winter 10s of millions of households will be without a fuel source to heat their homes, not to mention the ripple effects and spinoffs into the economy.
Moving agriculture to indoor led growing facilities as the outdoor climate will become too unstable and too hostile. It’s all about rotary drum grow systems, the correct wave lengths of light to grow plants and the machinery / hardware involved to replace lost crops from the fields.
Countries have been annexing land for a decade knowing this Grand Solar Minimum was coming, but the Obama administration did nothing to prepare. We also delve into the certainty of scientists that show massive shifts in global cloud patterns due to increased cosmic rays and subsequent effects on our weather with more clouds.
Railroads will be brought back as the economy shrinks in the USA as the cheapest form of transport and delivery. New boom towns will emerge as a repeat in history. This technology of laying rails can be brought back on line so rapidly compared with rebuilding entire roadways. A majority of transport will be going by rail.
If every government in the world came to agreement and worked together, we could put together solutions, but at this rate we are out of time and little preparation has been done. You are on your own.
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Biomass Boiler Fuel Feed Systems - TerraSource Global Webinar Series

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Grid Energy Storage: Beyond Batteries

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Grid Energy Storage: Beyond Batteries

nvestment in renewable energy infrastructure was higher than in fossil fuel infrastructure. With grid-scale energy storage, intermittent sources of renewable energy, such as wind and solar, become viable for the grid. VLAB will examine the technology and economics to make this transformation possible.
The global market for energy storage services could be worth as much as $31.5 billion in 2017, according to Lux Research. Additionally, Pike Research forecasts that $122 billion will be invested in energy storage projects between 2011 and 2021.
Today, 99% of the global energy storage is pumped hydro, which is geographically constrained. Now entrepreneurs free us from this constraint with fundamentally new technology challenging conventional expectations of capacity, efficiency and product life.
Where are the best business opportunities for these start-ups -- at green energy farms? on the grid? or at the consumer's home or business?
What are key metrics to make this economically viable, without subsidies? Efficiency, life-time costs, Capex?
Will advances in traditional pumped hydro and compressed air prevail over battery/chemical technologies?
Which countries are leading in Energy Storage on/off the grid?
When will these new technologies become profitable?
How and when will US utility companies get on-board?
Join us to Learn More.
Moderator:
Eric Wesoff, Editor-in-Chief, Greentech Media
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Professor Jay Whitacre, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aquion Energy
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Making an Artificial Leaf: Creating Hydrogen Fuels through Water, Sunlight and Carbon Dioxide

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Making an Artificial Leaf: Creating Hydrogen Fuels through Water, Sunlight and Carbon Dioxide

What if you could copy the process that plants use to create a renewable source of fuel? JoinNathan Lewis, from the California Institute of Technology, as he shares his work on transforming water, sunlight and carbon dioxide to make fuel. This "artificial photosynthesis" is a solar-driven system that splits water to create hydrogen fuels while avoiding common barriers to clean energy production, such as rare and expensive catalysts.

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Global Energy and Carbon: Tracking Our Footprint

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Global Energy and Carbon: Tracking Our Footprint

Tracking Our Footprint follows families in the United States, India and Cameroon to examine how energy is used in three economies: industrialized, emerging, and developing. This documentary explores options to manage carbon emissions from energy use while providing adequate access to energy for the worlds growing populations.

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Green Technology Documentary

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Smart Energy Europe: a 100% Renewable Energy Scenario for the European Union

This study presents one scenario for a 100% renewable energy system in Europe by the year 2050. The transition from a business-as-usual situation in 2050, to a 100% renewable energy Europe is analysed in a series of steps. Each step reflects one major technological change. For each step, the impact is presented in terms of energy (primary energy supply), environment (carbon dioxide emissions), and economy (total annual socio-economic cost). The steps are ordered in terms of their scientific and political certainty as follows: decommissioning nuclear power, implementing a large amount of heat savings, converting the private car fleet to electricity, providing heat in rural areas with heat pumps, providing heat in urban areas with district heating, converting fuel in heavy-duty vehicles to synthetic fuel, and replacing natural gas with synthetic methane. The results indicate that by using the SmartEnergySystem approach, a 100% renewable energy system in Europe is technically possible without consuming an unsustainable amount of bioenergy. This is due to the additional flexibility that is created by connecting the electricity, heating, cooling, and transport sectors together, which enables an intermittent renewable penetration of over 80% in the electricity sector. The cost of the Smart Energy Europe scenario is approximately 10-15% higher than a business-as-usual scenario, but since the final scenario is based on local investments instead of imported fuels, it will create approximately 10 million additional direct jobs within the EU.

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Using e-cigarettes may lead to an accumulation of fat in the liver, a study of mice exposed to the devices suggests. “The popularity of electronic cigarettes has been rapidly increasing in part because of advertisements that they are safer than conventional cigarettes ... Friedman of Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California ... Circadian rhythm dysfunction is known to accelerate liver disease....

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